Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-10-06

member of the Department Council of Ad-
mipistration, and one of the Pennsylvania
delegates to the National Encampment In
1872. He was also a member of the COM
mission that erected the soldiers monu-
ment at Lancaster, Pa. In 1875 he re-
moved to Minneapolis, and has been
Commander of Morgan Post No. 4, De-
partment of Minnesota, and Senior Vice
Department Commander two terms. He
was elected Senior Vice Commander-in-
Chief in 1894 and 1885. He served as Cap
tain of Company A, First Regiment, Min
nesota National Guard, from 1879 to 1882,
ao oS o@ s Co 1885, 6GenEa WE he Of TnR
Brigadier General.
At the close of the war Captain Rea bad
a record of three years and four months
service, and had been absent only ten days,
seven Of which he was a prisoner and
three on the sick list. In 1865 he entered
the Wesleyan College, at Delaware, Ohio,
and completing the classical course, gradu-
ated in June, 1867, During the vacation
Of 1866 he entered the office of the Hon.
j. j. Dickey, Lancaster, Pa, as a law stu
dent and was admitted to the bar In 1868,
On April II, 1869, President Grant ap..
pointed Captain Rea Assessor of Internal
Revenue of the Ninth District of Pennsyl-
yania, which Office he held until it was
abolished by law in 1873. He continued
practicing law in Lancaster until Decem-
ber, 1875, when he moved to Minneapolis,
and shortly became editor of the Mime
apolis Tribune. remaining in that
connection until May, 1877. He re-
sumed law practice, but in Noyem-
Der of the same year was chosen
Probate Judge, and was reelected in 1879.
Declining a denomination in 1880, he again
resumed practice, forming the late firm of
Rea, Wooley & Kitchell, afterward Rea,
Kitchell & Shaw. In the summer OF 1885
Governor Hubbard appointed CaI tain Rea
Judge of the District Court to fill the uf-
expired term of Judge M. b. Koon, re-
signed. At the election in the following
November Judge Rea was chosen for the
same Office for term of seven years. OF
late years he has figured prominently in
Grand Army affairs, both State and Ma
tional. From Commander of local post
he went TO the Office of State Commander
in 1853, and was elected Senior Vice Com
mander- in chief at the National Encamp-
ment held in Minneapolis in 1884. He IL
also a member of the Loyal Legion.
National Encampment g. A. X.
The convention Of delegates 10 the ma
tional encampment of the Grand Army oi
the lucb III ots hOulo, 1hOsg VI
Sept. %, Gen. Fairchild, Commander-in-
| Chief, presiding. Committees were ap-
pointed, and the work of organization pro-
ceeded quietly. The annual address oi
Gen. Fairchild was presented, and an
nounced the evidence of permanent and
| healthy growth of the Grand Army of the
Republic and of the strong love of the
order entertained by the loyal people oi
| this country. That this may continue he
earnestly cautioned every member that he
keep watchful guard over himself wher
be acts or speaks as member OF the
Grand Army and not consciously further
schemes foreign to the legitimate purposes
| of the organization. Article 9, forbiddinl
the use of the organization for partisan
purposes, had, so far as he knew, beer
strictly obeyed in letter and spirit.
From Adiutant General Gray's report i
was learned that the total number of mem.
bers borne on the rolls of the ordsr at The
national encampment was 326, ,499. The
number reported on June 80, 1887, wal
3T2,674; actual gain in five quarters, 49,.
l57. The increase of members in ninet,
days, ending June 80, 1887, in good stand
ing, was 1866. In 1886 there were 60,63.
members. In the last FIVE quarters ther'
have been mustered into the Grand Arm.
72,355. There we're reported June 30
1887, in good standing, 1886, ,562; suspended
25, 200; by delinquent reports, lO,S92; tota
at last returns borne upon the rolls, 372,
GA. The amount reported expended II
charity March, 1886, to March, 1887, in
elusive, is $253. .934.43. This money wa
disbursed to 1850 comrades and thei
families, and $500 others were assisted
giving 26,6O6 individuals who had receive'
benefits during the year.
The Grand Army veterans, attired II
rubber coats and with trousers rolled up
paraded some of the principal streets in
steady downpour Of rain. Thousands VIII
we're at the encampment had either gon
home or refused 10 march in the mud, bu
there were men enough to organize te
divisions, representing in their make-u
nearly oil the departments. The Depart
ment of the Missouri was given the nigh
Of the line, and the Department OF lllinoi
followed in the second division.
An escort Of police led the procession
! Then followed the Grand Marshal wit